By the end of the Q4 2015 period, Kubilay Kocak (koobs@), started an initiative to form an experimental Bugzilla Triage Team. The main goals of it are increasing community involvement (addition/training of new triagers) and enhancing current procedures and tools among others. This experiment was started with participation of Vladimir (blackflow on irc/freenode) and Rodrigo (DanDare on irc/freenode), who approached koobs@ with a desire to contribute and get more involved with the FreeBSD Project. This experimental pilot project has the importance of setting up procedures for enhanced Issue (Problem Report), management that includes better classification/prioritization which eventually leads to faster resolution of the issues.

We are now happy to report on the progress of this experimental team:

• We have set up #freebsd-bugs IRC channel on Freenode and we are successfully using it to exchange information about triage processes, ask for help, propose changes and discuss related topics.
• We have identified the primary role of a Issue Triage Team to be that of classification of problem reports of all kinds (currently limited mostly to ports and obvious src issues) and facilitation of issue assignment, which is making sure the reported issues are explained well containing all the appropriate information (or as much of it as possible), and brought to attention of the people who can act upon them.
• Vladimir and Rodrigo are successfully training in bug triage as well as porting processes (Vladimir, who is also taking maintainership of some ports).
• This experiment is benefiting from the introduction of newcomers to issue tracking. It naturally resulted in a entire review of the tracking proccess from it's very elementary aspects. This "fresh eyes" participation permitted spotting minor details along the proccess, bringing opportunity to scrutinize actual procedures on a number of smaller points followed by proposal of several suggestion on how to improve the overall Issue Tracking and Management, from organizational through technical ideas and solutions such as new or modified keywords or flags for better classification, triage workflow, Bugzilla technical improvements among others.
• An important goal is producing documentation not only aimed at people directly engaged on the issue triage tasks but also aimed at general users, about best practices using Bugzilla and issue management workflow. Another relevant point is that feedback from triage team can be used to improve Bugzilla in terms of adjusting existing features to best fit FreeBSD needs and development of new features (please see Mahdi "Magic" Mokhtari's report on "Bugzilla improvements").
• We are still collating ideas in preparation of setting up a Wiki namespace for the overall topic of issue management, containing information for all the parties involved in issue tracking: from users (reporters) to maintainers and committers. The unorganized brainstorming document is linked in this report.

Since the Issue Triage Team is very young, we expect more information be available as well as more actions be done in time by next Status report.